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Olympus Corporation is a Japanese manufacturer of optics and reprography products, as well as precision machinery and instruments based in Tokyo, Japan. Olympus was founded in the year 1919 by Takeshi Yamashita and was previously named "Takachiho Seisakush"
which was derived from Mt. Takachiho. The company then changed its name to the Greek mythology-inspired Olympus Optical Co., Ltd. in 1949 to "reflect its strong aspiration to create high-quality, world-famous products." And after many years of existence, the company eventually opted for the much simpler name Olympus Corporation in 2003. Olympus's products include digital cameras (like the OM-D E-M5), film cameras, lenses, voice recorders, and digital audio players.

08/23/2012, So you think that you are tough? Well, assuming that is true, you might want to have an equally tough digital camera to follow you around so that it is capable of capturing all that goes on around during your adrenaline pumping adventures. The candidate...

08/22/2012, Olympus announced the new STYLUS SP-820UZ iHS, its flagship Ultra Zoom camera that features an impressive 40X optical zoom in a stylish and light body (485g). Thanks to the Super-Resolution Zoom, you can get up to 80x digital zoom magnification. The 22.4...

08/20/2012, If you make your living through photography, or if it’s simply a passionate hobby of yours and you have several Olympus “Top Pro” lenses lying around, you might be interested to learn that Olympus has confirmed that they are working on a new camera...

07/13/2012, Olympus has just announced that they will be offering new firmware for the OM-D E-M5, and with each new firmware update, you can more or less be sure that there will be improvements made to the hardware in terms of performance and stability. Some of the...

07/05/2012, Back when we were younger, it was probably every geek’s fantasy to have glasses that worked like computers. With the advent of today’s technology it looks like that fantasy is turning into a reality. Google recently demonstrated its Project...

05/29/2012, Imaging giant Olympus has just announced what they claim to be the world’s slimmest industrial videoscope which measures in a 2.4mm in diameter. The super-slim creation which is called the Olympus iPLEX TX industrial videoscope has been fitted with a...

05/08/2012, If you are in the market for a prosumer class of digital cameras, then you might be glad that Olympus just announced their SZ-31MR iHS camera which is said to deliver plenty of performance and power into a single, compact and lightweight body. This is...

04/13/2012, For those whose hearts have already melted because they have set their eyes on the Olympus OM-D E-M5, here is some good news. It is ready to ship to pre-order customers living Stateside, Canada, and across the pond in the UK and Germany. Better late than...

02/29/2012, If you are looking forward to the Olympus OM-D E-M5, then you will be pleased to know that this particular shooter is going to hit the market on the last day of March this year. Having appeared on Amazon’s Japanese site with that particular...

02/20/2012, Japanese giant Olympus has dropped to new lows in recent times, mainly because of the false reporting of accounts that made it one of the biggest and longest-running loss-hiding arrangements in Japanese corporate history. The company has failed to shake...

02/08/2012, Olympus continues their march to expand their digital camera market share with the release of the Olympus SP-620UZ, where it will come with a high-magnification zoom lens which is capable of handling a remarkably wide shooting range thanks to focal...

02/07/2012, Micro Four Third cameras have recently taken the spotlights since the compact camera segment is losing market shares, thanks to the rise of Smartphones. We are pleased to see the Olympus OM-D E-M5, the new “top of the line” camera in...

01/18/2012, Back in the day before DSLRs, there existed the Olympus OM-1 (pictured above) which many considered to be one of the more popular SLRs back then. Well thanks to teaser ads released by Olympus and thanks to the trademark registered by Olympus back in...